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Internment vs Entombment - What's the difference?

internment | entombment |

As nouns the difference between internment and entombment

is that internment is confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country while entombment is the act of entombing or the state of being entombed.

internment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

    • entombment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of entombing or the state of being entombed
  • The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encasing it in concrete